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Time to rethink megaquakes [1]

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For more than 1000 years, we have known that the seas off the coast of Sendai in Japan can turn treacherous. An account of how one quake unleashed a flood that swept away a castle town can be found in Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku (The True History of Three Reigns of Japan), completed in AD 901 for the emperor. (Editorial)

Publication Date: 
23/04/2011
New Scientist [2]
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Earthquakes [3], Geology [4], Natural Disasters [5], Disaster Management [6], Japan [7], Tsunami [8]
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